Data collection from Twitter

The bachelor thesis deals with creating application for data gathering from social network Twitter. Data is gathered in real time with variable length of gathering. Theoretical part describes social network Twitter as a client but also as a tool for data gathering. The bachelor thesis identifies limits which need to be respected during the creation of Twitter applications. Another topic of the thesis is PlanetLab network, which is well known mainly by the network researchers and developers of network applications. History of PlanetLab is captured within the second chapter and the difference between PlanetLab and other research networks. Practical part contains guide for application development in programming language Python. Process of the application disctribution to the PlanetLab nodes is enclosed as well. Last chapter analyses data collection and maximum speed of data gathering in the created system